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Someone has to pay for transit and it usually comes from drivers
by ipaddr 4y ago
Someone has to pay for transit and it usually comes from drivers
- xracy 4y agoWho subsidizes the roads for drivers?
- ipaddr 4y agoGas taxes.. where does transit money come from? General revenues and gas taxes.
- throw0101c 4y ago> Gas taxes.. Questionable: "Why Gas Taxes Aren't Paying the Bills Anymore" * https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-02-15/gas-taxes-aren-t-paying-the-bills-for-roads-anymore https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-02-15/gas-ta... "Gas Taxes Don't Cover the Costs of Our Roads" * https://www.onthecommons.org/gas-taxes-dont-cover-costs-our-roads https://www.onthecommons.org/gas-taxes-dont-cover-costs-our-... "Ten Years of Highway Trust Fund Bankruptcy: Why Did It Happen, and What Have We Learned?" * https://www.enotrans.org/article/ten-years-of-highway-trust-fund-bankruptcy-why-did-it-happen-and-what-have-we-learned/ https://www.enotrans.org/article/ten-years-of-highway-trust-... Further, expanding roads for car-centric use just makes things worse: > It is a paradox in that improvements in the road network will not reduce traffic congestion. Improvements in the road network can make congestion worse if the improvements make public transport more inconvenient or if they shift investment, causing disinvestment in the public transport system. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downs–Thomson_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downs–Thomson_paradox There is decades of empirical evidence that building more roads/highways does not improve congestion (but makes it worse): * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
- dragonwriter 4y agoAll of society subsidizes fuel for drivers by the absence of sufficient pigovian taxes to offset the externalities of burning it. (Well, additionally by the way US military and foreign policy revolves around fossil fuel supply. Which lots of people around the world pay for, and not just US taxpayers.)